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8 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 23, 2015 by Haile Wusu · said 11 times in 1 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Forecasting Content with Mashable's Chief Data Scientist Nov 23, 2015 · 11 mentions · from 0:09
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Nov 23, 2015 positive

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Mashable plans to expand content modeling using Knowledge Graph data

“We are looking to expand our ability to model this complicated problem out using information from something we call Knowledge Graph, where we collect very, very granular information about sharing behavior on just our content.”

Haile Wusu Nov 23, 2015 ▶ 17:27 Forecasting Content with Mashable's Chief Data Scientist

Nov 23, 2015 positive

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Mashable content predictions compare favorably to Facebook despite lacking granular graph data

“And these results actually compare favorably with the results found by folks at Facebook, for example, who actually have all of the granular information that we don't have about the actual graph structure on which these cascades happen.”

Haile Owusu Nov 23, 2015 ▶ 17:10 Forecasting Content with Mashable's Chief Data Scientist

Nov 23, 2015 positive

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Velocity prediction engine sources the overwhelming majority of Mashable's top content

“And we actually find that the top end of our content, those stories that are viewed very widely and shared very, very widely, the overwhelming majority of those are sourced from Velocity by our editorial staff.”

Haile Owusu Nov 23, 2015 ▶ 22:52 Forecasting Content with Mashable's Chief Data Scientist

Nov 23, 2015

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Mashable crawls about a million pieces of content daily

“So we crawl a, on the order of about a million pieces of content daily.”

Haile Wusu Nov 23, 2015 ▶ 12:25 Forecasting Content with Mashable's Chief Data Scientist

Nov 23, 2015

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Mashable models graph growth across tens of thousands of URLs daily

“And then do this replicated over tens of thousands of URLs daily so that we can get an aggregation of which are the better performers.”

Haile Wusu Nov 23, 2015 ▶ 14:00 Forecasting Content with Mashable's Chief Data Scientist

Nov 23, 2015 positive

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Mashable's Velocity engine reaches 75% content prediction accuracy within five minutes

“We are able over within about five minutes to get about 75% accurate with Our predictions for overall sharing behavior with increasing accuracy over time.”

Haile Owusu Nov 23, 2015 ▶ 16:58 Forecasting Content with Mashable's Chief Data Scientist

Nov 23, 2015 positive

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Owusu says Mashable built its Velocity predictive engine completely in-house

“The entire structure of this Of this app Velocity was built in-house. I mean, really we built it from the ground up. I had the great pleasure of working with exceedingly talented people in, in particular, our chief chief architect built this from the ground up…”

Haile Owusu Nov 23, 2015 ▶ 18:43 Forecasting Content with Mashable's Chief Data Scientist

Nov 23, 2015 neutral

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Owusu: Mashable licensed Velocity out and built models without pre-existing frameworks

“Because we obviously have an interest in, and have actually licensed this license velocity out, we haven't used any pre-existing models for predictions.”

Haile Owusu Nov 23, 2015 ▶ 19:17 Forecasting Content with Mashable's Chief Data Scientist

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